You couldnt have a memo more than three pages, a powerpoint less than 10 pages. Its harder to Say Something concisely. Theres always one or two messages you are trying to deliver, so it made you go quickly and forced the conversation to where he wanted to go. We thought the morning after, this would still be on the president s desk. Tax reform still has one more hoops to jump through. Gary tiny. Come on. When are you going to stop worrying . Gary almost, now. Last night was a huge night. If you put things in perspective , you think about what we got done over the course of the year, you read what everyone wrote, where we were a year ago today. We were starting down this path. People were talking about, it has been 31 years since that since tax reform was being done. We were talking about a with a 20 handle on it. People said, you couldnt get below 25 . You said there is no way can make it permanent. If you think of what we have done, weve got a corporate rate down to 21 . Weve made it
You couldnt have a memo more than three pages, a powerpoint less than 10 pages. Its harder to Say Something concisely. Theres always one or two messages you are trying to deliver, so it made you go quickly and forced the conversation to where he wanted to go. We thought the morning after, this would still be on the president s desk. Tax reform still has one more hoops to jump through. Gary tiny. Come on. When are you going to stop worrying . Gary almost, now. Last night was a huge night. If you put things in perspective , you think about what we got done over the course of the year, you read what everyone wrote, where we were a year ago today. We were starting down this path. People were talking about, it has been 31 years since that since tax reform was being done. We were talking about a with a 20 handle on it. People said, you couldnt get below 25 . You said there is no way can make it permanent. If you think of what we have done, weve got a corporate rate down to 21 . Weve made it
Arrival of the Transcontinental Railroad, tacoma was not dissimilar from other areas around puget sound. Coming over the oregon trail and then by sea, small little villages really of americans and europeans had arrived, mostly along the shoreline. And that was because primary purpose here for people that were settling was cutting timber and milling timber that was then sent down to san francisco. So that prompted a lot of entrepreneurs and small investors and adventer u adv to come and build cities. All were small, smallish communities of 50 to a few hundred people really prior to the coming of the transcontinental. But at the conclusion of the civil war and the announcement really that the railroad was coming, every community, you know, hoped that they would be the terminal city, that they would be chosen for the railroad. So it came down to really being between seattle, tacoma and olympia. And so by 1873, by early in 1873, the transcontinental obviously was being built in two directi
Refers to the many different ways that life on this part of the country has been recorded, either through letters or diaries or journals or photographs or objects as well, by the many, many different varieties of ethnic cultures that have lived here. What we wanted to accomplish in emphasizing the materials that you see in this exhibit is that more information can be gathered by just using the records that we have on the second floor, our research core, the archives themselves, and then also a Research Library of 40,000 volumes on the American West. Human habitation in the plains would date from certainly in this part of the country, from well before the current era. Most an throw pothropologists n American Indians as far back as 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, plains culture. What you will see in this exhibit here is much more recent, perhaps about 1700, but it is still precontact. We date the contact period from about in this part of the country anyway, from about the 1740s when there wa
Have everybody here tonight. Its a great crowd and i it feels like just kind of a festive light atmosphere and im glad. Weve got a great presentation for you tonight. My name is steve weberg, i work in the Public Affairs department here at the library and its going to be my honor here to introduce a guy ive gotten to know and really come to admire a lot here in the past few months working with him. Some of you may already have been through our new exhibit open just under two weeks ago on the second floor in the mountain gallery called cowboys and culture. If you havent, i would strongly urge you to. Its just a fascinating collection, and im talking about a large collection, of artifacts, art and other objects that illuminate the connection that i wasnt aware of down through history going back to the cattle days between city of kansas city and amarillo, texas. Its so big, in fact, part of it spilled out into kirk hall down in the first floor, you may have seen the big saddle there and t